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For the adaption equivalent, see Esmar Tuek/2000 miniseries
Esmar Tuek was a spice smuggler in the days of Muad'Dib.
Biography[]
Tuek's operation was based in the polar regions of Arrakis. For many years he was responsible for smuggling spice off Arrakis for profit. A cunning and astute businessman, Tuek had secret arrangements with the Fremen, both as a means of making profit and as a way of undermining the rule of the Harkonnens.
When the Harkonnens were replaced by the Atreides on the order of the Emperor, Duke Leto Atreides convinced Tuek and his band of smugglers that House Atreides would ignore their operations if they gave a percentage of their profits to the Duke.
He was invited to a formal dinner hosted by the Duke, at the suggestion of the Lady Jessica in an effort to sow doubt among the Duke Leto's enemies on Arrakis. During the dinner, the Duke is called away when Harkonnen spies tried to sell the stolen Atreides carryall to the smugglers. Tuek's men, under orders from Tuek, handed the spies and the carryall to Atreides authorities, earning Tuek the Duke's gratitude. Upon leaving the dinner, the Duke left Paul as host; he was challenged then by a guild Banker in Harkonnen employ, and Tuek, together with Kynes, interfered in the resulting verbal battle, which ended with the Banker duly embarrassed.
When House Atreides was attacked and the Duke killed, Tuek suffered an unlucky death, in the wrong place in a wrong time. Traitorous Suk-doctor Wellington Yueh stabbed Tuek and Mapes to death. Gurney Halleck, Atreides Warmaster, along with a handful of House Atreides forces, managed to escape and fall in with Tuek's son Staban and his men, where they remained for two years.
Tuek's descendants seemed to have remained on Arrakis. A distant yet direct descendant, Hedley Tuek was High Priest of the Rakian Priesthood some 5000 years after the time of Esmar Tuek.
Description[]
Tuek had a scarred face.[5]
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Appearances[]
- Dune (first appearance)
- Children of Dune (mentioned only)
References[]
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 28: "I am Staban Tuek, son of Esmar Tuek," the smuggler said.
- ↑ Heretics of Dune - Chapter 32: Tuek had come from a family that held firmly to its roots, saying: "There is something worth preserving in our past."
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 5: YUEH (yu'e), Wellington (weling-tun), Stdrd 10,082-10,191; medical doctor of the Suk School (grd Stdrd 10,112); md: Wanna Marcus, B.G. (Stdrd 10,092-10,186?); chiefly noted as betrayer of Duke Leto Atreides. (Cf: Bibliography, Appendix VII [Imperial Conditioning] and Betrayal, The.)
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 18: It was the smuggler, Tuek, a wet stain down his chest. The dead eyes stared with empty darkness. Leto touched the stain -- warm. How could this man be dead here? Leto asked himself. Who killed him?
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dune - Chapter 16: "Who's the man with the scarred face ahead of Paul?" the Duke asked. "I don't place him."... "The smuggler's called Tuek, Esmar Tuek. He's a power among his kind. They all know him here. He's dined at many of the houses."